Stage Details

Legislation -
Bill Passed
(Senate)
(39-12) -
Feb. 14, 2013(Key vote)

Vote Result

Yea Votes

Nay Votes

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits an individual other than a physician from administering any abortion-inducing drug, effective July 1, 2013.

Highlights:

Prohibits any individual other than a physician from administering, selling, dispensing, or providing any abortion-inducing drug for the purpose of inducing an abortion (Sec. 4).

Requires the prescription for the abortion-inducing drug to by written in compliance with the protocol authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the final printed label (Sec. 4).

Defines “abortion-inducing drug” as a medicine, drug, or other substance prescribed or dispensed with the intent of terminating the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman (Sec. 3).

Defines “final printed labeling” as the FDA-approved informational document for an abortion-inducing drug which outlines the protocol authorized by the FDA and agreed upon by the drug company applying for FDA authorization of that drug (Sec. 3).

Requires a physician to determine gestational age of the fetus prior to providing an abortion-inducing drug (Sec. 4).

Requires the physician who administers the abortion-inducing drug to contract with another physician who has admitting privileges at a hospital (Sec. 4).

Requires a physician to schedule a follow-up visit at least 14 days after the administration of an abortion-inducing drug (Sec. 4).

Requires a physician who provides an abortion-inducing drug for purposes other than that of inducing an abortion to report his or her actions to the State Department of Health (Sec. 5).

Classifies a violation of this bill by a physician as a misdemeanor and authorizes the physician’s license to be denied, revoked, suspended, or limited (Secs.6 & 10).

Authorizes civil malpractice actions against a physician who violates the provisions of this bill (Sec. 7).

Specifies that any provision of this bill determined to be invalid is severable from the other provisions of this bill (Sec. 9).